take the oaths required by an act of parliament made Apr. 24, 1689, he was by virtue of that act suspended from his office; and about the beginning of 1690 deprived of his bishoprick. The last acts in bp. Turner's time, as bp. of Ely, were performed by commissioners 5 who were Compton, bp. of London, and Lloyd then of St. Asaph.

About the end of January 16901, a proclamation was issued by qu. Mary, own daughter to king James, for discovering and apprehending Francis, late lord bp. of Ely, Wm. Penn, and James Graham (sq. for conspiring with divers enemies and traitors, and particu10 larly with the lord Preston and Mr. Ashton, lately attainted of high treason. This is recorded by Kennet, who further adds in a note, that the bp. was author of a state pamphlet. There scems, at this time of day, near an hundred years after the fact, to be little reason to deny or conceal a circumstance that must at the long run turn 15 out to his credit, tho' when it was acted [it] was penal, and even at this distance hardly safe to applaud it: I mean loyalty and gratitude to his prince and patron, and zeal for the church of which he was a bishop, and which at that crisis was in the utmost danger from the party who brought about the revolution. Tho', à l'ordinaire, Sir 20 John Dalrymple has got most plentifully abused in all the public prints since his book came out, for telling a few truths about some republican saints, whose characters were too sacred to be violated, yet not a soul controverted what he asserts in relation to our bishop: nay, rather let all the bps. in Christendome be sent off to America 25 than that the ashes of Sidney and Russel should be disturbed. Sir John says positively, what no one ever disbelieved, that bp. Turner was in correspondence with king James at St. Germains in 1691; and in a letter to that monarch, dated Dec. 21, the bishop, under the feigned name of Mr. Redding, has these words, which plainly im30 ported that the rest of the deprived bishops were his associates. "I speak in the plural, because I write my elder brother's sentiments, as well as my own; and the rest of the family's; though "lessened in number, yet, if we are not mightily mistaken, we are "growing in our interest: that is yours." But if this wanted con35 firmation, we have plenty of it: for since the publication of the aforesaid memoirs, Mr. Macpherson3 has favoured the world with papers of the same sort: among which is one, containing proposals from King James's friends, in 1694, with his majesty's answers: among the rest is this.

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"12. They desire, that, if your majesty thinks fit to call any of the bishops [to St. Germains], that it may be the bp. of Ely. They think it would be for your service; and he is in a condition to live without being burthensome to your majesty.

1 Kennet's Hist. of Eng. vol. 3. p. 614, 615.

2 Memoirs of Gr. Brit. & Ireland. p. 465. 2d Edit. Lond. 4to. 1771.

3 Original Papers, vol. 1. p. 491.

Answer. The king approves of their opinion; and when he calls any, it shall be him."

How such activity can be called retirement, I cannot reconcile with my ideas: yet Mr. Bentham1 says, that after his deprivation, he "lived the rest of his days in retirement." It was while he was mas- 5 ter, or soon after, that he and Dr. Gower prepared new statutes for the university, to be ratified by king James. He was a good benefactor to the college; and meant to have been more so; but dying at London, without a will, Nov. 23, 1700, all his effects fell to his daughter, otherwise very amply provided for; and by this means frustrated 10 the college of what they had reason to expect. His body was conveyed to Therfeild and buried Nov. 5, in the same vault with his wife, for whom he prepared it many years before, with a splendid epitaph; but whether the daughter has done as much for her father, who well deserved it, Mr. Baker makes a question; which seems to 15 be resolved by Mr. Bentham's observing, that, altho' he had been at so great expense in ornamenting the chancel of Therfield, yet the only memorial of him is this single word, engraved on the stone which covers the vault,

I shall conclude what I have further to say of him, tho' I have a great plenty of other materials, with these words of dean Hickes, who thus mentions him in 17055, omitting what such writers as Burnet have said of him. He thus cordially remembers him. "Cuius "amicitiae recordatione sic superstes fruor, ut beate vixisse videar, 25 "qui cum illo coniunctissime vixerim."

In a letter from Mr. Baker to Tho. Hearne, partly printed in the preface of Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, p. XLIV. says, that Nicholas Farrer, the noted founder of the Protestant Nunnery at Gidding in Huntingdonshire, "was so great and good a man, that the late bp. of 30 "Ely, (bp. Turner) had a design to write his life: but what collec"tions he had made, or where lodged, I do not know. His library " was sold." W. C. Oct. 9, 1777.

Yet this great and good man, as he was abused by the fanatics of his own time, so the same spirit which actuated them has raised up 35 another gentleman to abuse him in ours. v. Top. Anecd.

1 Hist. of Ely, p. 205.

2 Mr. Baker's MSS. Vol. 17. No. 3.

3 [Narcissus Luttrell, State Affairs, 1v. 703].

4 v. my Vol. T. p. 9. Art. Fr. Turner.

5 Linguar. veterum Thesaurus. Pref. p. 46.

6 [See Gough's Brit. Topogr. II. p. 291*; Two Lives of N. Ferrar,

Cambr. 1855, p. 290 seq.; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. VII. 287.]

ADDITIONS TO COLE'S LIFE of Turner.

His mother died 25 Jul. 1692 aet. 84. (Peshall's Oxf. app. 21.)

His daughter Margaret, wife of Rd. Goulston, esq. of Widihall, Herts, died 25 Dec. 1724 (Historical Reg. 1725. Chronol. Diary, p. 4).

There are many letters of Turner's in the Tanner MSS. See also M. 5 Walcott's Wykeham, 379, 380; Burnet's Own Times; Anderdon's Life of Ken; Lathbury's Nonjurors; Blomefield's Norf. 8vo. III, 655; Lipscomb's Bucks, 1. 17; Hasted's Kent, II. 45, IV. 595; Dallaway's W. Sussex, I. (city of Chichester) p. 15. Dr. Rawlinson arranged his papers (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. V. 495).

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Turner subscribes 20 Dec. 1664 on his admission to Therfeilde rectory (MS. Baker XXXVIII. 231).

'Conceditur 17 Febr. 1664 [1664] ut Franciscus Turner artium magister in acad. Oxon. sit hic apud nos Cantabrigienses eisdem anno, ordine et gradu, quibus est apud suos Oxonienses' (Grace, ibid. XXV. 243).

Paul Colomies (Opuscula, 682) dedicates to him his Paralipomena de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis.

He prepared the d. of Monmouth for his execution (Gent. Mag. June 1850, p. 588).

Dean Granville's Remains, Surtees Soc. 1865, pp. 124, 125: '10 April 20 [1684]. I arrived at Windsor, and the first day of my attendance I waited on the bp. of Rochester. He thanked me for the letter I sent him about the revivall of the weekly sacrament in this cathedrall. He excused him. selfe for not answering it, but declares that when hee comes to Rochester, hee will set it up, telling mee also that hee intends to do the same at 25 Windsor, and that hee had set up prayers at 7 a clock in the morning and 8 a clock at night, to bee read for servants and the souldiers. Moreover the bp. inquired whether the weekly sacrament was begun at Yorke, wondring very much that it was not done yet, when the cathedralls in the province of Canterbury advanced on apace, informing mee of one cathedrall more 30 that had begun this good order, which I had not heard of before, namely Gloster.

'8th May. On Holy Thursday I waited on the bp. of Rochester, who shewed much forwardnesse and zeale for the promoting of weekly sacraments in cathedralls, and after my presenting unto him the state of my 35 parishes, as to the monethly celebration of the communion in each of them, and declaring unto him the number of people to bee soe considerable, that it became burthensome to my curates to discharge their duty in that particular without the assistance of more than one person, hee advised to celebrate the communion oftner, and weekly if there were occasion. And 40 when I replied to him, I was afraid to reproach the cathedrall and the metropoliticall church, his lordship answered that was noe matter provided my parishes would bear it.'

In Prior's poems, beside the verses to Turner who had advised a translation of Prudentius' and 'A pastoral to the bp. of Ely on his departure 45 from Cambridge,' is a copy of Latin elegiacs with an epistle 'ad Franc. episc. Eliensem' (pp. 130, 131, 253, ed. Chalmers).

Letter to Sancroft, 14 Oct. 1676, declaring his intention of marrying Anna Horton (Agn. Strickland, Lives of the seven bishops, 155, 156).

Letter to the same, 2 June 1681, from Edinburgh; 'And uppon all occasions I find that he [the duke of York] places his hopes altogether uppon that interest wee call the church of England, uppon the episcopal 5 party, and mainly upon the bishops themselves, your grace especiallie' A collection of letters addressed by prelates and individuals of high rank in Scotland..... to Sancroft. Edited by Wm. Nelson Clarke, D.C.L. Edinb. 1848, pp. 27-30.)

Letter to Turner from abp. Alex. Burnet, 9 Febr. 1683 (ibid. 49, 50). Letter from Turner to Sancroft Febr. 1683 (ibid. 53). Cf. pp. 59, 66, 68, 69, 83, 100.

Letter from Turner to Sancroft, 19 Aug. 1681, on Gordon, a New York chaplain (Miss Strickland, ibid. 163).

Letter to Is. Basire, in Basire's Corresp., by Darnell, 305 seq.

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Letter written in 1688, printed in Gutch, Collectan. Cur. and in the suppl. to Bentham's Ely, p. 131 (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. Iv. 68).

Letter to Mr. Reading, read at lord Preston's trial 1691 (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5540 f. 53).

Turner, Lloyd and White consecrated Tho. Wagstaffe bp. of Thetford 20 23 Febr. 1693 (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. 1. 35).

15 Dec. 1696. 'Dr. Turner, late bp. of Ely, being taken last week by Mr. Wilcox the messenger, is discharged, on condition he will transport himself beyond sea' (Narcissus Luttrell, State Affairs, IV. 154).

26 Dec. 1696. Dr. Turner........is again taken into custody' (ibid. 160). 25 Letter dated 23 June 1700 (Birch MS. 4274 art. 58, Ayscough's Catal, P. 791).

I have given several other references in Notes and Queries, 2nd Ser. IV. 337.

HUMPHREY GOWER, TWENTY-FOURTH MASTER.

ADMITTED DEC. 3, 1679.

I have nothing to do here but to transcribe my account of him, which I drew up about two years ago, among the rectors of Ditton near Cambridge, and is as follows.

Humphrey Gower1, S.T.P. was collated to the rectory of Ditton 5 in 1677, by bp. Gunning: but the exact day is omitted in my extract2.

He was born3 at Dorchester, the capital of Dorsetshire, where his father, Mr. Stanley Gower, was minister during the usurpation and rebellion and one of the assembly of divines at Westminster, em10 ployed by the long parliament in 1643 to new-model a mongrel kind of church after their own fancies: and was a man of some eminence amongst them, preaching before the parliament on 5 Nov. of that year: at which time he was desired to print his sermon. Whether he complied with their request I know not, having never met with it. 15 However, he has two or three other things in print: one of which is, the Life of Mr. Ric. Rothwell, a puritan minister, who died in 1627, and is published by Mr. Sam. Clarke, among his Lives.

It is probable that his mother's name was Hyde: as the doctor quartered the arms of that name and family: viz. Azure, a Cheveron 20 between three Lozenges, Or, with those of his own, viz. Azure, a Cheveron between three Wolves Heads, erased, Or. This appears from his atchievement, still hanging in Thriplow church, and probably taken from the front of the country house, which the masters of this college enjoy by his bounty in that village.

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He was first placed by his father in the schole at Dorchester, and from thence removed to that of St. Paul's, under the care of Mr. Samuel Cromleholme, who before had been his master at Dorchester schole.

1 Arms I and 4. Azure a cheveron between 3 Griffins [mistake for wolves'; see the text, 1. 21] heads erased or. 2 and 3. Azure a cheveron bet. 3 Lozenges or, for Hyde. v. my vol. 57. p. 374.

2 Regr. Elien. D. p. 105.

3 Hutchins's Hist. of Dors. p. 373.

4 Journals of the House of Commons. Vol. 3. p. 297.

5 Clarke's Lives. p. 67.

6 My vol. 2. p. 32.

7 [Knight's Life of Colet, p. 419; Strype's Stow, App. 2, p. 22 b].